Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
Deepak Jain
deepak at ai.net
Thu May 28 16:15:11 UTC 1998
I think the news.com article makes it pretty clear that the ENTIRE MCI
Internet operation (backbone, peering, 15,000 interconnections) were
all sold for $625M.
I guess C&W can dump its UUNet customer connections now.
-Deepak.
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Al Reuben wrote:
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> The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in
> London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US?
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> Another words, was the *entire* MCI backbone sold to C&W, or only the
> European portion of it (is there even a European portion of it?)
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> On Thu, 28 May 1998, Hui-Hui Hu wrote:
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> > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
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> > well, this should be interesting.
> >
> > ---
> > Tung-Hui Hu (HH26) Network admin and poet hhui at arcfour.com
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> >
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